Whitney Port’s husband is setting the “set the record straight” on his concern over her weight.
Tim Rosenman clarified in Tuesday’s episode of the “With Whit” podcast that he found the “Hills” star “too thin from an aesthetic point of view” and believed she could “be hotter.”
After acknowledging that his reasoning might “open [him] up to being an a–hole,” the producer told his wife that he “personally prefer[s her] with another 10 to 15 pounds … from a looks point of view.”
Later in the conversation, Rosenman, 46, reiterated, “I was concerned that you could be hotter with 10 or 15 more pounds, and maybe that’s f–ked up.”
Port, 38, agreed that she “aesthetically” does not like how she looks, blaming her weight on previously being under the weather.
“It all stemmed from when I ripped up my esophagus and lost all that weight from when I got sick. Since then, I think I have just not put it back on,” the “City” alum said while calling her social media followers’ worries “blown out of proportion.”
The online commentary began in July when Port wrote via her Instagram Stories that her partner had been “worried” about her weight.
She has since shared her plans to build strength and see a nutritionist, noting that she does not believe she is suffering from an eating disorder as much as “disordered eating.”
Rosenman blamed himself for backlash in Tuesday’s podcast episode since “people took what [he] said and gave [her] an eating disorder.”
He claimed, “That is not the case. … I am not worried about your health because I have intimate knowledge of your organ function, your cholesterol levels, I know them all. Whitney is in the 99th percentile of all this stuff. Whitney is healthy.”
While he “was not concerned with her health,” Rosenman did wonder whether his wife had a “strained relationship with food, with appearance [and] with being in the public eye.”
Port and Rosenman, who have been married since 2015 and share a 6-year-old son named Sonny, have both asked listeners to stop commenting on her body.
While she vacationed in Cabo in bathing suits last week, the fashion designer clapped back at “harsh” speculation that her social media uploads in bikinis were “body checks.”
She wrote, “I didn’t even know what that meant until someone wrote it on one of my posts! … I’m on a beach vacation. In a bathing suit. Warning: some pictures and videos might show my body.”
